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Overview

Call Number: SC0191

Creator:
Williams, Thomas M., 1871-1947

Title: Thomas M. Williams papers

Dates: 1895-1948

Physical Description:
0.75 Linear feet

Summary: Correspondence, notes, clippings, photographs, and memorabilia pertaining to Williams' affiliation with Stanford University
and Palo Alto Hospital, including syllabi and notes from classes, 1895-96; his World War I service in Scotland; and his family.
Also includes guest book from the family cabin, 1937-47, which includes notes and signatures of Herbert Hoover, Lou Henry
Hoover, and their children

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Stanford Class of 1897. Williams earned his MD at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1901. He was one of Palo
Alto's first physicians, establishing his practice there in 1904; he continued a close affiliation with Stanford, serving
on its Board of Athletic Control from 1916 to 1928.

Description of the Collection

Correspondence, notes, clippings, photographs, and memorabilia pertaining to Williams' affiliation with Stanford University
and Palo Alto Hospital, including syllabi and notes from classes, 1895-96; his World War I service in Scotland; and his family.
Also includes guest book from the family cabin, 1937-47, which includes notes and signatures of Herbert Hoover, Lou Henry
Hoover, and their children

Strattnpeffer Naval Hospital, Scotland: includes photographs, souvenir photo album, postcards and a reminiscence by Edith
May Lyon - a nurse who served with Dr. Williams at Strattnpeffer during World War I